PM Modi to inaugurate 2,600-bed private hospital with fully automated laboratory in Faridabad on 24 August

Faridabad: A 2,600-bed new private hospital equipped with cutting-edge technology, including a centralised fully automated laboratory, patient-centric wards and OPDs, and built on a sprawling 130-acre campus with sustainability in mind is all set to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Faridabad, Haryana, next week.

The state-of-the-art Amrita Hospital has a dedicated seven-storey research block and has been constructed over a period of six years under the auspices of the Mata Amritanandmayi Math. The hospital is slated to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister on 24 August.

The new super speciality hospital will initially open with 500 beds and is expected to be fully operational in a phase-wise manner in the course of the next five years. The hospital with 81 specialities, once fully operational, is billed to be the largest private hospital in Delhi-NCR and the country, its officials said.

According to Dr Sanjeev K Singh, Resident Medical Director of the hospital, the project was first envisioned in 2012 and the initial plan was to site it in Delhi but eventually, it was decided to build it in Faridabad. The groundwork for the project had started in mid-2016 was delayed due to multiple factors like the acquisition of farmlands, and was heavily stalled during the lockdowns induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“However, COVID also taught us lessons, and some of the designs were redrawn and certain elements were incorporated to make the hospital environment safer for people as COVID infection is now being assumed to spread largely through droplets or air. So, we have built something called a negative pressure room - a kind of an isolation room, in which suspected cases can be kept away from others. This is different from a regular isolation room,” he told.

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